Federal contractor · EVANSVILLE, IN

VECTREN LLC

VECTREN LLC received $306.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+92% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.5M. Its largest customer was U.S. Census Bureau ($306.8K).

Obligations · FY2026: $306.8K
New awards: 1
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: QLDEQ1KR4JX5
Parent company: CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC.

Other than small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

5 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $308.4K in FY2026 together.

VECTREN LLCEVANSVILLE, IN · Family page
Reported parent$306.8K
CENTERPOINT ENERGY HOUSTON ELECTRIC, LLCHOUSTON, TX
Reported parent$1,578
ATMOS ENERGY MARKETING, LLCHOUSTON, TX
Reported parent$0
CENTERPOINT ENERGY RESOURCES CORP.HOUSTON, TX
Reported parent$0
CENTERPOINT ENERGY RESOURCES CORP.MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

496.8KFY2017
608.8KFY2018
1.9MFY2019
405.2KFY2020
261.4KFY2021
515KFY2022
447.5KFY2023
400KFY2024
160KFY2025
306.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

U.S. Census Bureau$306.8K100%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Facilities & utilities$306.8K100%

Where the work was performed

Clark County, IN$306.8K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Low competition100%
US 39% · $306.8K
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $306.8K
Single-offer competitions0.0%
US 8.8% · $0
Urgency justifications0.0%
US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

NATURAL GAS UTILITY SERVICE AT JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA.$3.9M
U.S. Census Bureau· Clark County, IN· Facilities & utilities· Dec 27, 2016 – Mar 25, 2026· DOCYB132315NC0054

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

1 company · $319K reported

TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION$319K
COLLEGE STATION, TX · 4 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of VECTREN LLC (5 recipients).

Matched organizations

CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $790K; 8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $2.6M; $2.6M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026: $12.5K; 1 PAC

Lobbying by year

2023$620K
8 reports
2024$930K
12 reports
2025$790K
8 reports
2026$230K
4 reports

Top issues

Energy and nuclear32 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code25 reports
Budget and appropriations14 reports
Environment and Superfund14 reports
Homeland security14 reports
Transportation14 reports
Telecommunications8 reports
Utilities5 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES32 reports
U.S. SENATE31 reports
Energy - Dept of1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

PRIME POLICY GROUP$1M
14 reports
Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.$120K
4 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Republican$12.5K100%
Democratic$00.0%

PACs sponsored

CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$592.3K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2026 cycle

Tom Cole$1,500
R-OK-4 · House · 1 PAC
Dan Crenshaw$1,000
R-TX-2 · House · 1 PAC

$2,500 of the $12.5K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 2 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Craig A. Goldman$3,500
R-TX-12 · House · 1 PAC
Troy Balderson$1,000
R-OH-12 · House · 1 PAC
Martin Heinrich$1,000
D-NM · Senate · 1 PAC
Troy E. Nehls$1,000
R-TX-22 · House · 1 PAC

$6,500 of the $7,000 its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 4 members of Congress.

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.8 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025–2026
H.R. 5376 · Inflation Reduction Act of 20227 reports
117th Congress · Became law · 2023–2025
H.R. 2486 · Heating and Cooling Relief Act6 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
H.R. 2613 · Next Generation Pipelines Research and Development Act6 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
S. 1214 · Heating and Cooling Relief Act6 reports

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.